Miscellaneous Ideas

The Louisiana Booklet

During the year my students put together a booklet on Louisiana. It is a project
that many teachers use. Our booklet is a 75+ page booklet. The booklet will contain
sections on the flags, government, food, politics, buildings, and local color. I
furnish the materials the students use for research. Over the years I have put
together folders of dittos of each item requested, piece together the copy to be
used, and much more due to limited time in the Applied Tech lab and/or library.
Below is a checklist of what is required for our booklets. Add, subtract, or modify
to meet your students I have hyper-linked my work sheets to the items listed below. needs. The booklet generally takes partial class time over
a seven week period.

LA History Booklet Instruction Sheet

Directions: State Divisions - Draw, trace, or use dittos for
each map. All lettering must be in BLUE or BLACK ink. Color maps. (use pages in your text)

State Divisions (Division sheet) must include artwork

Parish map

Parish seat map

Major Rivers, Lakes, Bayous

Highways and eight major cities

Cajun Triangle (label all parishes of triangle)

Directions: Government - Use you text, other books, or
folders to get information required. List all current state officials - Gov., Lt.
Gov., Sec. of State, etc plus all local officials. Using artwork provided, trace
items needed, color and do short (100 word min.) article on each. All writing must
be in BLUE or BLACK ink.

Directions: Louisiana Foods - Using Louisiana cookbooks,
select one breakfast, one meat, one seafood, one dessert recipe, and one recipe of
your choice. Finish each page by filling page with artwork to illustrate recipe. Be
sure to copy COMPLETE recipe - that includes ingredients, how items are mixed,
cooking temp, number served etc.

Directions: Louisiana Locally - Draw, trace, or use dittos
for each map. All lettering must be in BLACK ink. Color maps.

Louisiana Locally (Division sheet) must include artwork

Lake Charles history article and art

Lake Charles city map

List of Lake Area's top ten events

Directions: Louisiana ABC's - research and select one item
from Louisiana History TEXT BOOK that goes with each letter of the alphabet (no
parishes or cities please) such as (A=Atchafalaya, B= Beast Butler, etc) Using TWO
letters per page, fill page with letter, artwork and a short sentence describing
each item selected. All items MUST be things we studied this year and MUST be in
the textbook..

Bring a "new" 3-ring folder (binder) to class. All material will be put in this
binder according to the order of these checklists. A Table of Contents will then be
added to the front along with a hand drawn, full color cover sheet. Turn in by due
date posted on the board.